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Hercules the show has the god like powers of its protagonist namesake. If it did jump the shark it only became more powerfull!
I think it was bad camp rather than good camp. With all the rich material of Greek mythology they rarely did anything with but stage generic fight scenes.
I don't think this show ever jumped the shark! Like someone else said, it just reinvented itself in season 5. This show was truly epic in it's time and fun! The humor was great and I agree about Bruce Campbell (Autolycus) being the best part! Well, Michael Hurst too as Iolaus was all kinds of awesome. Though it did seem the gods were weakened when they shouldn't be. It seemed too easy sometimes to defeat them. But the way Ares (Kevin Smith) was portrayed was brilliant! He's suppose to be this evil war god, right? Well, I found it awfully hard to hate him! Sometimes I found myself cheering him on even though he was trying to kill Hercules or whatever. He makes the perfect villian that you love, not hate like Dahak. Speaking of which, I really really hated the whole Dahak storyline, even in Xena. But I feel it redeemed itself after those few miserable episodes. They always knew when to throw in a hilarious episode to balance out the dramatic and angsty ones. I'm so proud to own this series on DVD!
Hercules was awesome cuz it brought us Xena and Lucy Lawless!! Gotta give it props for that!!!!
I have no idea if this show was any good or not, I was to busy staring at the MEN! How can you turn away from Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Kevin SMith, and Bruce Campbell all in various stages of undress? It was a pec-lover's dream come true.
Day 1. Homocles was surpassed in stupidity only by Xena: Warrior bore.
HERCULES did the opposite of jumping the shark. It reinvented itself in Season 5 and came up with a brilliant series of episodes. Unfortunately, thanks to the stupid jump-the-shark theory, most viewers had stopped watching by then.
Kevin Sorbo is a terrible, horrid actor. The only good this show did was bring us Xena/Lucy Lawless. I am very thankful for that.
This show never ever jumped! It had a lag episode here or there, but overall, it was kitchy tongue-in-cheek brilliance.

I only hope to catch the reruns someday.
The show was just fun, never really took itself seriously though they dared to mix it up, try different things and have fun. Never jumped.
This show Never jumped the shark! It rocked- right up until the end. What made this show utterly BRILLIANT was the fact that is was so tongue-in-cheek. It never took itself too seriously, and yet, it was very clever. It managed to pull off corny dialogue, over the top action sequences, mixed up mythologies, and ridiculous plotlines that would have had any other show jumping the shark from day one. But there was something about the dialogue, the chemistry between the actors, the sly directing and the deadpan deliveries-- that made Hercules perfect. It was an ideal balance of elements!
I don't think it ever really jumped. I think it weakened though. Strangely, the Hercules of Greek myth was a lot more like Xena. Troubled, a killer, even a hint of being forced to dress as a woman while enslaved by one queen. Not to mention all the relationships involving the same gender and various family relations. Definitely more like Xena and nothing at all wrong with that. But the Herc tv show was fun. It never descended to the angsty level of Xena or maybe it did once in a while but it seemed so much more real when it did rather than silly by doing it. As the series went on, the anachronisms started to annoy a bit. 1920s dancing girls in ancient Greece for instance. I remember one episode where he meant Japanese people (could have been a good way of having him learn the martial arts he was always using but since he already knew martial arts, oh well) and they invited him to bathe with him. He said where he came from people didn't do that. Huh? In Greece they surely did. But then again, the Legendary Journeys takes place in Greco-America. Although the episodes where he was Hercules pretending to be an actor named Kevin Sorbo were funny as all heck, I found that those and the other extreme anachronisms weakened my ability to suspend my disbelief and get into the setting. But I don't think they took it too far except maybe with the crossovers with Xena. They weakened the gods way too much although that was more a Xena plot. Truth to tell, I'm not even sure what happened to Herc in his last appearance. Yet, in spite of the weakness, it remains one of my favorite shows. The character himself is a true hero in a time when everybody has to be some flawed anti-hero. Herc went through the anti-hero stage and came out of it a true hero still. And, best of all, the DVDs are starting to come down to a reasonable price.
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Hercules - The Legendary Journeys
First Show 1995
Slot Time Various
Slot Day Various
Genre Adventure
Network SYN
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